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== English == === Alternative forms === hdr (abbreviation) === Etymology === From head +‎ -er. === Pronunciation === (General American) enPR: hĕd'ər IPA(key): /ˈhɛdɚ/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhɛdə/ Rhymes: -ɛdə(ɹ) === Noun === header (plural headers) The upper portion of a page (or other) layout. Coordinate terms: body, footer, table Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it. Synonyms: head, heading Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table. (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above. (computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents. (programming) Clipping of header file. (networking) the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors. Coordinate terms: body, payload (masonry) A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork, with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall). Synonyms: bonder, coping, cope Coordinate term: stretcher A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening. Synonym: lintel A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc. (soccer) The act of hitting the ball with the head. (soccer) Someone who heads the ball. Hyponym: diving header A headlong fall, jump or dive. A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system; a header tank. A pipe which connects several smaller pipes. The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied. One who puts a head on something. (Ireland, derogatory) A headcase; a nutjob (mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person). ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === header (third-person singular simple present headers, present participle headering, simple past and past participle headered) (sports, transitive) To strike (a ball) with one's head. === Further reading === header on Wikipedia.Wikipedia header (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “header”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “header”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === Hardee, adhere, heared, hedera, rehead